{"id":358,"date":"2007-10-10T09:55:05","date_gmt":"2007-10-10T08:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=358"},"modified":"2007-10-10T09:55:05","modified_gmt":"2007-10-10T08:55:05","slug":"hosted-platforms-and-the-risk-of-lock-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/358-hosted-platforms-and-the-risk-of-lock-in.html","title":{"rendered":"Hosted platforms and the risk of lock-in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two interesting posts for anyone considering building an application on a hosted platform like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/force\/\" target=\"_blank\">force.com<\/a> (Salesforce). <a href=\"http:\/\/onstartups.com\/home\/tabid\/3339\/bid\/2421\/force-com-The-Perils-of-Platform-As-A-Service.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Onstartups<\/a> has a thoughtful article about what it would be like to succeed on such a platform, and how much money and control you might end up ceding to the hosting vendor. Bob Warfield&#8217;s Smoothspan blog takes up the theme with a <a href=\"http:\/\/smoothspan.wordpress.com\/2007\/10\/08\/the-perils-of-platform-as-a-service-its-not-as-bad-as-all-that\/\" target=\"_blank\">response that is longer than the original<\/a>. What does it all boil down to? This, I think (from Smoothspan):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>First, it has to be possible for you to move your software in a reasonable amount of time to new lodging if it gets too ugly.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As Smoothspan notes, this is what makes a service like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s3\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon S3<\/a>, which you can easily switch out for another service, more attractive from this point of view than force.com, with its proprietary Apex language and forms.<\/p>\n<p>That does not mean force.com is necessarily a bad deal. It means there has to be a lot of added value &#8211; such as productivity, high-level components, rich services &#8211; before it makes business sense to accept the lock-in.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:1ce1bfde-1310-45cc-8ff2-9e4f86a12bf5\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/salesforce.com\" rel=\"tag\">salesforce.com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/force.com\" rel=\"tag\">force.com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/apex\" rel=\"tag\">apex<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/bob%20warfield\" rel=\"tag\">bob warfield<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/amazon%20s3\" rel=\"tag\">amazon s3<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two interesting posts for anyone considering building an application on a hosted platform like force.com (Salesforce). Onstartups has a thoughtful article about what it would be like to succeed on such a platform, and how much money and control you might end up ceding to the hosting vendor. Bob Warfield&#8217;s Smoothspan blog takes up the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/358-hosted-platforms-and-the-risk-of-lock-in.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hosted platforms and the risk of lock-in<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-software-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}